DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

DevOps Infrastructure Engineer
Cisco Silicon One is seeking a highly motivated and experienced DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing infrastructure team. In this role, you will play a key part in accelerating engineering velocity by building and maintaining scalable, highly reliable infrastructure and automation. Your work across CI/CD, infrastructure as code, databases, observability, and system optimization will directly enable our engineering teams to develop, test, and deliver software faster and more efficiently.

Meet the Team
This position is part of Cisco’s Silicon One organization, based in Israel. Silicon One is the foundation of Cisco’s industry-leading networking hardware products, pushing the boundaries of technology and driving the next generation of high-performance, scalable solutions.
You’ll work in a dynamic, multi-site environment that combines the innovation and agility of a startup with the scale and resources of a global technology leader. Our teams work across ASIC, hardware, software, labs, and infrastructure to build cutting-edge networking solutions.

Your Impact

• Design, build, and continuously improve scalable DevOps infrastructure and engineering workflows
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code and configuration management solutions using Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies
• Deploy and orchestrate containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes
• Develop and maintain on-prem Linux infrastructure and system images
• Build and operate observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK/OpenSearch, and related technologies
• Design dashboards, alerts, and SLO/SLI frameworks that provide real-time visibility into infrastructure, pipelines, and lab environments
• Develop data collection pipelines and exporters for metrics, logs, and traces across the organization
• Drive automation and tooling for anomaly detection and incident response, helping reduce MTTD and MTTR
• Partner closely with software, IT, and lab teams to understand their needs and build reliable, scalable solutions
• Establish and promote security, reliability, and operational best practices across infrastructure and data platforms
• Drive technical improvements and continuously identify opportunities to increase engineering productivity
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, and system design documentation

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering or a related role

• Strong Linux administration fundamentals with experience in on-prem data center or hybrid cloud environments.
• Proficiency with Bash and Python for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring or observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or similar
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or similar.
• Experience with configuration management, infrastructure as code, or GitOps workflows using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, ArgoCD, Flux, or similar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Experience with log aggregation platforms such as ELK, OpenSearch, Loki, Splunk, or similar
• Experience working with on-premises data centers or hybrid cloud environments
• Experience designing highly available and scalable infrastructure
• Strong understanding of observability, incident management, and production reliability practices
• Experience working in large-scale engineering, lab, or hardware/software development environments

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.